Coping Skills
One healthy coping skill that you can use when feeling overwhelmed.
What is deep breathing, journaling, exercise, fidgets/stress balls, music, etc.
This can happen to a conflict when people respond while still extremely angry.
What is escalation?
Why naming emotions can sometimes make them easier to manage
What is identifying emotions can make them easier to understand how you are feeling and respond to it?
Name the first Disney princess.
Describe grounding techniques.
What is 5-4-3-2-1 method, counting, deep breathing?
Name why people may become defensive during conflict.
What is feeling attacked, criticized, blamed, misunderstood, mistreated?
When you notice your heart racing and take deep breaths to calm yourself down, you are using this emotional skill.
What is coping (or self-regulation)?
Name the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
Name 3 coping skills that don't involve your phone.
Name one reason someone might avoid conflict even when it bothers them?
What is fear of confrontation, rejection, or making things worse?
Name why anger might be covering up another emotion.
What is sometimes to protect your other feelings of hurt, embarrassment, fear, sadness?
Name the only sport that has been played on the moon.
What is golf?
Name TIPP skills
What is T-temperature, I- intensive exercise, P-paced breathing, and P-progressive muscle relaxation.
Name why taking a pause during an argument and coming back later can be more productive than continuing the conversation.
What is a pause can lower emotional intensity and make it easier to think and communicate clearly?
Name why an emotion shouldn't always immediately be acted on.
What is emotions give us information but we can still choose how respond?
Name the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace.
What is the aglet?
You are having a terrible day and no coping skill is working. Name something you could try next.
what is Reach out to someone. Seek professional support/talk to therapist if needed.
Name why the words "always" and "never" make conflict harder to resolve.
What is absolute language can make people feel attacked and can distract from the specific issues being discussed?
Name what can happen when someone repeatedly pushes their emotions down and never confronts them.
What is emotions build up and eventually come out in unhealthy ways?
Name the largest mammal in the world.
Blue whale